♪this is what love looks like♪ ♪this is what love looks like♪ ♪ ♪this is what love looks like♪ larry: i just want to end the show by thanking my lovely, wonderful, fabulous, saintly wife, judy kudlow, on on our 36th anniversary. thank you, sweetheart, for all the things you do all the time. much love. and i will turn it over to my friend liz macdonald. elizabeth: judy's a saint. just kidding.

[laughter] larry: she is. elizabeth: thank you, larry it's good to see you. the white house now under serious fire. we have a u.s. attorney confirming a, quote, ongoing investigation into joe and hunter biden bribery allegations. house law makers are doubling down on multiple probes and more on the fugitive witness who says he gave the fbi proof of biden family corruption and bribery. he's now on the run. we've got congressmen andy biggs and kat cammack, kellyanne conway, legal eagle sol wisenberg, tom dupree, reporter jon levine and editor chris bedford. biden 2024, that campaign in trouble. "the new york times" now reports on the, quote, trump economic boom. and new bombshell house judiciary report, the fbi worked with ukraine to get social media to censor americans. plus, associated press out with breaking news, a major controversy involving supreme court justice sonia sotomayor.

i'm liz liz macdonald, "the evening edit can" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: former doj attorney honest von spa coski -- hans von spakovsky, what do you make of this? u.s. attorney david weiss in delaware confirms in a letter to senator lindsey e graham and, yes, the fbi has an active, quote, ongoing doj-f bbi investigation into with bribery allegations into joe and hunter biden. what do you make of this? >> what's taking them so long? this investigation has gone on for years, and i am just astonish ed at how slow they have been to do this. i mean, look, they just filed multiple charges against this potential witness, gal luft, which, by the way, included

violations of the foreign agent registration act. why? for receiving $700,000 from the very same chinese energy company that paid hunter biden $5 million. elizabeth: so then why didn't hunter biden register as a foreign agent? >> yeah. elizabeth: soll -- saul, what do you make of this? this allegation is a bribery scheme with a ukrainian oligarch. what do you make of all this? >> it's impossible to know what to make of it, liz, based on the record as we know it. but as you know, the easiest way for the department of justice not to talk about something that congress wants to talk about is to say there's an ongoing investigation. [laughter] but again, that investigation has been going on for a long time, and i'll tell you this, if david weiss in delaware is the guy in charge of it, we're in real trouble because his public

statements, his three recent letters in the last three weeks to various members of congress trying to set the record straight each time and each time making it fuzzier are very, very disturbing. he obviously is not being forthcoming. he obviously lied to a room full of fbi and irs agents on october 7th of 2022 when he told them, he either told them the truth or or he lied when he told them that he went to d.c. and was denied authority to charge hunter biden there, and he went to the u.s. attorney's office in california and was denied authority there and then went to the main justice and was told, no, follow the process. he denies all of that, so he's either lying to the room full of fbi agents, or he's lying now k and his letters are so petty-going -- petty-fogging and so muddled almost intentionally,

they're embarrassing. so if he is the person and his office in charge of the investigation, we've got problems. elizabeth: so picking up on what sol just said, senator chuck grassley sending a letter u.s. attorney david weiss demanding information on why with assistant district tonight leslie wolf didn't ask after they were briefed by officials from the pittsburgh office. senator grassley says potentially hundreds of doj and fbi officials knew about that bribery scheme but didn't act. what do you think, hans in. >> i think that's a real issue. sol is exactly right in what he's saying about those letters that weiss has said. just one quick example of this, look, the irs whistleblower is saying that one of the assistant u.s. attorneys many in weiss' office said no matter how much evidence they had, there was no way they would get a search

warrant to go into the guest cottage of joe biden where where hunter biden with was living. and someone in that office notified hunter biden's lawyers about the fact they wanted to search hunter biden's storage unit in northern virginia. that's misconduct of the worst kind. elizabeth: if this said the name trump on it, sol, and it involved the trump administration or trump and his family, nancy pelosi would have been out there stampeding around again to, you know, impeach trump even when he's out of office. i mean, the doj just unsealed charges. let's stay on this. the charges made last year, they unsealed it against gal luft. he was reported earlier this year in cyprus, he's on the run. he claims he gave the fbi evidence of hunter and joe biden bribery involvement from a source with ties to the chinese military as hans just specified. what do you make of this? he's also accused of being an unregistered foreign agent of

china, arms trafficking, sanctions violations and more. what do you make of that, sol? >> well, you never know what to make. it's very common for people accused of multiple crimes to say, hey, i'm being indictedded for political reasons. we just don't know because doj won't tell us, but i'll tell you this, fara, the foreign agents registration act, i mean, the enforcement of that was absolutely lame and pathetic until donald trump became president, and all of a sudden it was enforced, enforced against michael flynn, enforced against his partner and now against this fella. so i would like to just make sure there's even handed enforcement. elizabeth: republicans say gal luft should be given immunity to testify. watch msnbc on this and watch senator ron johnson. watch. >> i've got to say, comer, feel like a fool. seriously, how could we have ever doubted this guy? >> comer simpson. >> oh, the same, oh, the i

humanity. how could we have doubted -- [laughter] how could we have doubtedded congressman comer. >> when he heard joe biden was going to be running for president, that alarmed him because he knew how compromised he would be. what dr. luft has shown is the same financial transactions, the $100,000 per month retainer for hunter, $65,000 for james biden paid by cefc. he's got a welt of information, but they never -- wealth of information. but they never followed up on that meeting. up instead, they arrested him in cyprus to silence him. he's literally fleeing for his life right now. he's on the run. he's an important witness. elizabeth: so, hans, it seems like the american people aren't getting the information. msnbc ignoring multiple government reports, fbi and irs whistleblowers, they're not report aring or talking about the 150 bank reports filed with treasury on suspicious activity involving the biden family deals overseas. plus a parks -- fara charge

against luft but not against biden. >> that's why the house needs to be investigating this, because we don't know what's going on. we don't know why the fbi, doj have taken so long to investigate this, i why are they filing such uneven charges? why have they given a sweetheart deal on taxes in cases where if any of us didn't pay those taxes, we would have all been charged with felonies. there's a lot of unanswered questions here, and all of it makes doj and fbi look bad and look very partisan in their behaviors. elizabeth: you know, sol, we'd like to get your reaction to this. this sound is coming back to haunt joe biden. watch joe biden in the early '70s when he became a senator. watch his comments here. >> well, i'm not sure you should assume i'm not corrupt, but you have to go to those people who have money, and they always want something. you run the risk of deciding whether or not you're going to prostitute yourself to give the answer you know they want to

hear in order to get funded to run for that office. i went to the big guys for the money. i was ready to prostitute myself in the manner in which i talk about it, but they said come back when you're 40, son. elizabeth: property tuesday himself? what do you think, sol? prostitute? >> as we say in the law, the thing speaks for itself. elizabeth: got it. hans, sol, we'll have you back on again soon. thank you so much, gentlemen, for joining us. and back with us now, new york post political reporter jon levine. jon, you heard that conversation. what did you make of what we were talking about? >> well, i mean, there's still so many unanswered questions here. i think that's key takeaway, we just don't know what we don't know, and that's why it's critically important for everyone involved to testify before the relevant committees and put their cards on the table. we can't keep sort of going back and forth with allegations and innuendo. i want to see the receipts. i think the american people need to see the receipts s. and even

with gal luft, he needs to come in front of congress. is this a real thing or must jr -- just more smoke and mirrors in we don't know. elizabeth: obama era e-mails link hunt or biden to obama white house officials and bide biden cabinet members, nearly a dozen officials and cabinet members serving in the biden white house. it includes jake sullivan, antony blinken, you know, jeff xience. they have extensive ties to hunter biden. >> this is like groundhogs day. joe biden was meeting with hunter's business partners in the white house. they were golfing together. they would have lunch together. it has been demonstrably proven six ways from sunday that joe biden was involved in hunter biden's overseas business dealings with which he consistently has denied. the question is how extensive was the involvement. and that, i think, is what a lot of these hearings and questions from the oversight committee are trying to get at. but it's a real credibility

problem for this white house, because he's going to have to run in 2024 and explain the unexplainable which is you say you weren't involved, but there's this mountain of evidence that you were. what's the answer here? elizabeth: what's the answer? victor davis hanson, he makes the point that hunter biden is almost the same problem like bill clinton had with roger clinton, nixon had with donald nixon, jimmy carter with billy carter but that those presidents knew their relatives were problematic, they didn't bring them repeatedly into the white house. joe biden has done that with hunter biden. he's keeping him close. watch this. >> they say that he was not there friday, we know he was. they say that they're going to invoke the hatch act which is absolutely ridiculous. cocaine has nothing to do with politics and government service. and so all they have to do, as you pointed out, was say, no, no biden family member had cocaine, and they won't do that. all they do is increase the us suspicion. and then this story, will, becomes a force multiplier of the line narrative, of the --

loop narrative, of the whistleblowers from the ricks -- irs, and at some point they're like the proverbial camel, straws on a camel's back, they become too burdensome. they give a picture of a corrupt family and a son that's fully out of control and belongs somewhere, anywhere but not in the white house. elizabeth: talk to us about joe biden keeping hunter biden close. >> look, you know, liz or, i'm not sherlock holmes, but if there is cocaine at the white house, my first question would be have any known drug users been staying at the white house? and maybe we should ask those individuals some questions. and that seems to be, the white house calls that an irresponsible question. no, i mean, unlike all the other people you mentioned, nixon and carter and clinton, they tried to cauterize their problematic relatives. joe biden has been hugging hunter biden even closer even after he admitted to being a tax

criminal. in the best case scenario, he still committed tax fraud, this gun thing where he's getting a pretrial conversion, and they're holding him closer x it's going to continue to be a liability -- elizabeth: yeah. it's going to hit the polls. unclear how the president's going to handle this in presidential debates. he can't just sit back and say, you know, hunter biden, we understand he was in that terrible car accident that caused the lives of biden family members, has a drug addiction problem. then why did you put him out in front of major deals involving our adversaries? senator ron johnson is saying u.s. attorney david weiss, this is a problem, this is a problem with the doj, that they're stonewalling house judiciary, oversight and the fbi and doj is sheltering themselves from accountability. watch this. >> we need more whistleblowers coming forward. but heavy done a really good job of setting up their procedures in the fbi and the department of justice to insulate themselves from scrutiny. you look at the letters that david weiss sent to jim jordan june 7th, june 30th.

they're basically giving jim jordan the middle finger. you can't investigate us because we have an active investigation. that's what they always use as an excuse so they've insulated themselves from scrutiny. elizabeth: final word with, jon levine. >> i mean, someone is lying. i mean, the key thing is we have to see the receipts, we have to see the papers. everyones has to put their cards on the table. elizabeth: got it. jon levine, you'll be back soon. he's a great writer. this 2024 race is the kitchen table race. we've got more on even "the new york times" reporting about the, quote, trump economic boom. and again biden misleads. plus a new bombshell report out of house judiciary. why did the fbi work with ukraine to get social media to censor americans including journal is and a state -- journalists and a state department account? that's next on "the evening edits." ♪

♪ today, my friend you did it, you did it, you did it... ♪ centrum silver is now clinically shown to support cognitive health in older adults. it's one more step towards taking charge of your health. so every day, you can say, ♪ youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver.

- representative! - sorry, i didn't get that. - oh buddy! you need a hug. you also need consumer cellular. get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carriers and 100% us based customer support. starting at $20. consumer cellular.

i suffer with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. i was on a journey for a really long time to find some relief. cosentyx works for me. cosentyx helps real people get real relief from the symptoms of psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to or if ibd symptoms develop or worsen. i move so much better because of cosentyx. ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx.

elizabeth: okay, house republicans now raising the red flags on who exactly is spending big bucks on democrat races like biden 2024. a president who campaigned on ethics and transparency, reports suggest what's going on sounds

like anything but that. hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with the story. hillary. >> reporter: hi, liz. a lot of the money going into our elections can be funneled anonymously, so house republicans want to make sure that foreigners are not influencing our elections here in the u.s. in 2024. so they have a new bill that would limit or prevent any foreign money from being funneled through a nonprofit and then going to a party or candidate to give them an advantage in an election. democrats in the past have made it clear that they think so-called dark money is a dirty word, but they'val in the past publicly disavowed donations from corporations and billionaires that use nonprofits to dump millions into campaigns completely anonymously. but in 2020 democrats were guilty of using this loophole to influence elections. according to "the new york times," a 15 of the most politically active nonprofits that benefit the left spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020

compared to $900 millioning spent by the top 15 is nonprofits that spent money on republican causes. president biden also took up dark money donations in 2020 way more than former president trump did according to open secrets. biden's presidential bid drew more than $is 174 million in support from anonymous doe nones -- donors, six times more than what president trump raised from dark money in 2020. the house proposal also would crack down onion profits directly -- onion profits funding election boards. the republicans, liz, say largely went for ballot drop boxes in overwhelmingly democratic areas. liz? elizabeth: great story the, great reporting. hillary vaughn, it's good to see you again. joinings us now, congressman cat cam mack. congresswoman, it's good to see you again -- kat cammack. your subcommittee released this

bombshell report based on documents. why is the fbi working with ukraine officials and their security service to censor americans on social media? how can a foreign nation get fbi to do that? >> liz, this is horrific. the fbi is supposed to counter foreign influence, not facilitate it. and this report is exhibit ark oz -- as to how they are furthering the mission of agents and in some cases double agents, the ukrainian secret service intelligence arm and violating american civil liberties. as you said, american journalists, their posts have been taken down, state department posts were targeted by ukraine, and the fbi did the dirty work of taking it down. but it gets even more egregious. they wanted to set up a 24/7 channel where the ukrainian government could filter the posts through the fbi and the

fbi would back channel withing executives of twitter, google and meta to have these posts taken down. we spent $113 billion in ukraine, and we'll be damned if they continue to do the bidding of the ukrainian government. elizabeth: what were they censoring? >> it was everything from questions about the engagement that is happening there, the war in ukraine, everything from pro-russia, anti-russia, it was all over the map. and that's why we know that these posts weren't vettedded, because there wasn't a singular agenda that had been flagged. you would think that the fbi would have done the courtesy of checking the posts that they were telling these social media platforms to take down. but they didn't. some of them were pro-ukraine, anti-ukraine. that's what's so messed up about this entire situation. without question with, they violated the civil liberties of americans all across this country including journalists, including everyday american citizens. heck, the state department had things taken down.

that's e egregious. elizabeth: the ukraine security services routinely sent social media platforms massive spread sheets containing thousands of americans to censor, thousands. but the ukrainian security service, sbu, is known to be infiltrated by russia and has historic ties to the kgb. was there censorship of anti-putin materials? >> yes, from the posts i have seen, it cuts both ways. zelenskyy fired the head of the sbu in 2022 for the infiltration that was rife with russian agents. so we have getting a little bit out of both sides which peeks to the troubling nature of not only the fact that the fbi was doing the bidding of a foreign government, but the fact that they weren't vetting these posts. elizabeth: yeah. we're seeing a photographer with a studio in new york censored, a manager of a moving company in

censored, a musician in minnesota, a professor at a california university censored. you know, so there's that story. there's also this. congresswoman, let's move on to the second story, what you've been drawing attention to, that hhs secretary xavier becerra, he failed to properly and constitutionally basically appoint top nih officials. they weren't sworn in. but they're giving out grant money? can you break this story down? >> absolutely. so under the 21st century cares act, there was a requirement under section 2033 that the secretary had to appoint and reappoint officials within nih. to date, we know that that has not happened. so you have individuals like drt authorized and still issuing out grant money to the tune of $20 billion plus. including to the ecohealth alliance. now, we all know that there's a direct tie to the wuhan lab and the ecohealth alliance. we're going to get more and more information, but what we know is

that the biden administration broke from traditional policy, and these officials conducted business illegally using taxpayer dollars. elizabeth: got it. congresswoman, thanks for joining us tonight. >> good to see you, liz. elizabeth: okay. this mounting, growing present danger for american taxpayers in u.s. cities. biden's border crisis, he's collapsed it, it's unleashing gang members into city shelters and hotels have been asked to take care of these gang members nationwide, putting americans in danger x. also we've got former senior counsel to president trump kellyanne conway coming up on the kitchen table 2024 race. we've got more on even "the new york times"es reporting about the, quote, trump economic boom. and, again, biden misleads. all this on "the evening edit" next. ♪

♪ i have type 2 diabetes, ♪ ♪ but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪

♪ at each day's staaart. ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to seee ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c. ♪ jardiance works 24/7 in your body to flush out some sugar! and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can lower the risk of cardiovascular death, too. jardiance may cause serious side effects including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function, and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, ketoacidosis, or an allergic reaction, and don't take it if you're on dialysis. taking jardiance with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. ♪ jardiance is really swell, ♪ ♪ the little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ trying vapes to quit smoking might feel like progress, but with 3x more nicotine than a pack of cigarettes - vapes increase cravings - trapping you in an endless craving loop.

nicorette reduces cravings until they're gone for good. ♪ tourists tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪

elizabeth: okay, markets are looking ahead to new inflation

data this week. the big economic story, it's going to hit the voter polls. which states are showing how too it? where is the economy booming? where ises the quality of life high and why? grady trimble live in waco, texas, with the story. grady. >> reporter: it's the south, liz, that is the answer to your question. in fact, if you look at the six fastest i growing southern states, they're now contributing more to the national gdp than the northeast. that's never happened before, but there's no signs that things are going to go back to the way they were before. the fact of the matter is the southern states are seen as more business-friendly than other parts of the country. in the case of texas, for example, there's no corporate income tax, so companies are choosing the south to build factories and offices. all of the companies you see on your screen from hp and oracle to apple and amazon, they've either moved their headquarters to texas or recently expanded here. it's not just businesses moving south. more than 700,000 people have

collectively packed up and left california, new york and illinois in the past year, often heading for red states in the south. here in waco we talked to a small business owner as well as a california native who moved to waco from the if san francisco bay area about the growth. listen to what they have to say. >> we kind of saw the writing on the wall, so we decided to move out to texas. we sold everything and just bought a house out here, a ranch, and we've been loving it ever since. >> we don't have a state income tax. we take -- we pay property taxes and sales taxes, but it's a lot more friendly to the pocketbook here in texas. >> reporter: yeah, it's not just lower taxes, it's also lower housing costs, less crime. the warm weather is quite nice as well. you know, liz, they say you don't have to shovel sunshine, and those are all of the reasons we've heard that people want to

flock to texas and other southern states. elizabeth: we love feel-good stories like that. get your sun block on, grady trimble. >> reporter: yeah, i need it. [laughter] elizabeth: me a too with my skin. thank you so much. now look who's here, former senior counsel to president trump, kellyanne conway. kellyanne, did you see the story from "the new york times" on the trump economic boom, that the trump economy worked, that trump kept the boom with going in in and you've now got nbc saying this is to most important number for biden expect democrats, quote, the low 30s, that's where national polls have biden's approval rating on the economy. >> yes. thanks for having me again, elizabeth. the fact is the disapproval rating is the majority of americans. it's an even stronger indictment of how bidenomics is a scam. than even the approval rating. we have 40-year-high inflation, i know lots of democrats are trying to spin that it's getting better. it only gets better if people feel like they can meet their

monthly expenses, pay their bills. people are trying to afford bacon and eggs, not luxury cars and vacations. and it only feels better if you do what president trump said in that cnn town hall, drill, baby, drill. people know a lack of energy independence in this country that we had under president trump, first time in u.s. history to be net exporters of natural gas and oil, they know that it's quickly devolved and diminished into energy dependence. yes, high gas prices, but also dependence on foreign sources for our energy. and all the jobs that went with it. also, you know, i talk to so many younger people -- everybody's younger than me at this point, but i call it life interrupted, the kids are not all right. they don't know when they're going to buy their first homes, when they're going to get out of debt, when the jobs they have, two and three jobs strong, is going to be enough to meet the bills. any way you with look at it i think that biden's economy is hooked upon as weak as biden himself is looked upon as weak.

it all looks weak. elizabeth: yeah. we've got 16% inflation, right, all in under biden. trump kept the boom going. he gave biden, handed off an economy that was growing. 1% inflation. trump did tax cuts, but biden is spending bigtime money to get reelected and the rnc won the math, kellyis anne. biden has spent more days out of d.c. on vacation than any president in modern history going back to carter. >> yes. they would get upset if trump would spend a few hours on his own golf course on a saturday or sunday and get right back to the white house in washington d.c. look, people see this, they see incompetence, they see inertia, and what they don't see for them is a cost of living or a quality of life that they feel has improved urn biden and harris. and -- under biden and harris. and that's going to be the big question. you mentioned the tax cuts. i think this is an important point, elizabeth, because so many of them are going to sunset

if we don't do something about it. the tax cuts and jobs act of december 2017 launched so much prosperity and so many of those companies that were being accused of going to sit on the profits they get from lower taxes, they invested it in their work force, in their workplaces, in research and development and new inventory and expanding. and now we see so many of them and so many small businesses struggling to survive let alone thrive. the tax cut and jobs act passed without a single democratic vote. it was a total partisan vote, and so many of those democrats now have to realize they were on the wrong side then, and they're on the wrong side now. spending all money we don't is have on things we don't know. elizabeth: got it. kellyanne conway, good to see you. thanks for joining us. the associated press out with a bombshell, more breaking news, a new controversy involving supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. also the new danger, it's a growing and present one, for u.s. taxpayers in cities.

biden's border crisis is unleashing more and more lethal gang members into city shelters and and hotels nationwide. coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ >> it's time that we impeach mayorkas. he has done a horrible job at the border. the situation here has not gotten better. ♪ ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day a confident day... a never-hide-my-smile day...

a life-of-the-party day... a take-on-the-world day... a believe-in-myself day... a flash-my-new-teeth day. because your clearchoice day is the day you get your confidence back for good. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. after advil. feeling better? on top of the worlddddd!!! before advil. advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. when pain comes for you, come back fast with advil liqui-gels. with your hearing, if you start having a little trouble, you're concerned that it's going to cost you money. to this day i only paid what i had to pay for the device... when i go back everything is covered. there's so much you're missing by not having hearing aids. we'll find you a hearing aid that fits your lifestyle and budget at one of our over fifteen hundred locations. call miracle ear at 1-800-miracle

and schedule your free, no obligation hearing evaluation today. - this is our premium platinum coverage map and this is consumer cellular's map. - i don't see the difference, do you? - well, that one's purple. - [announcer] get the exact same coverage

as the nation's leading carrier. starting at $20. consumer cellular. ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ( ♪ ) constant contact's advanced automation lets you send the right message at the right time, every time. ( ♪ ) constant contact. helping the small stand tall.

elizabeth: okay, joining us now, republican arizona congressman andy biggs on house oversight. congressman, it's good to see you again, sir. an extremely dangerous and volatile situation is breaking out in cities nationwide hitting tax pay iers. biden weakened the border so badly, he's let in gang members like ms-13, and now they're in subsidized shelters, in shelters and hotels throughout u.s. cities. and there's not enough police, not enough security guards to stop the problems. he collapsed the border. he's not vetting who he's letting in. >> yeah, that's right.

to vet these people, you'd have to have access to their home countries in many cases. unless they've committed a crime in the u.s., you can't even vet them at all. so if they're coming from someplace, you know, far away, we don't have access to their criminal records, and many nights don't even -- nations don't have even have criminal record an rat discuss like we do. -- apparatus. they're finding ways to streamline moving these e people in here instead of disincentivizing these people. they get them here and we distribute them throughout the country, and they're going all over the place. and we don't know whether they're criminal gang members, whether they're international terrorists. we just don't know. elizabeth: yeah. you know, biden's voter base, labor unions, even the teamsters local 237, the teamsters told "the new york post" the migrant shelters are just too dangerous for their members, their unarmed security officers. they don't want them near these

gang members. these gang members are involved in drug and human trafficking. they're lethal. >> that's exactly right. they are -- and just think, they're dangerous in that location where you have a congregation of people who are here, the illegal aliens, they're sheltering them. but then they have no basis to keep them there. they leave the shelter, they go out and we're dispersing these people throughout -- disbursing these people throughout the country. we overwhelm the local communities, we're crowding them out, and we're crowding them out with people who are prone to commit crimes, members of gangs. and they're extremely dangerous. they're the inhumane. these people who are coming through9 with the trafficking, they just don't have any respect for human life. elizabeth: border patrol caught more than 1500 gang members crossing last three fiscal years. that includes ms plaintiff 13. that's -- ms-13. 442 so far caught this year. 2,000 criminal illegal aliens

arrested. now moving on9 -- 900,000 gotaways. watch former congresswoman mayra flores on fox and friends this morning. >> the biden administrations has lost track of 85,000 children. the democrat party stands against everything we stand for. i am announcing for congress, we are taking back our state the, texas district 34. i'm very excited and i have a lot of faith in god is and my family and my amazing team that we will flip this district and take back what is ours in 2024. the people of south texas, the american people deserve to have a voices in washington. elizabeth: all right, it's mayhem. border patrol seized fiscal year so far 20,000 pounds of fentanyl coming across the southwestrd border. that's enough to kill over, like, 4.6 billion people, whatever it is. the white house now has a plan to stop fentanyl laced with xylazine, that can include collude serious health risks,

death. but it's not about securing the border, congressman, it's about having the cdc and fda expand access to testing and prevention. is that enough? >> no, that's not near enough. and they're basing everything that the people that are coming here carrying those drugs are essentially coming through the ports of entry and that they can stop some there and test other places. but the vast majority of this is coming through the, between the ports of entry. that's where most of the criminal aliens are coming through. it's all coming between the ports of entry. elizabeth: got it. congressman biggs, it's good to see you. we've got more on the justice department indicting a man who accused joe and hunter biden of bribery and and corruption. plus common sense magazine's chris bedford, the associated press out with breaking news, this bombshell, a new controversy for supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. it's on "the evening edit" next. let's check in with dagen and brian brenberg shutting -- sitting in for sean.

brian: good to see you. ashley moody is with us as well as senator ron johnson. dagen: plus deroy murdock and caroline downey on our hot panel. they'll, among other things, discuss whether you have a ring doorbell, are you a racist bigot who's racially profiling people? hour.'t q♪ ♪ opinion from innovation refunds at no upfront cost. sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs] good to go. yeah, i think i'll get a second opinion. all these walls gotta go! ah ah ah! i'd love a second opinion. no. i'm going to get a second opinion. with innovation refunds, there's no upfront cost to find out. so why not check like i did for my small business? take the first step to see if your small business qualifies for the erc. shingles. some describe it as an intense burning sensation or an unbearable itch. this painful, blistering rash can disrupt your life for weeks.

it could make your workday feel impossible. the virus that causes shingles is likely already inside of you. if you're 50 years or older, ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingles.

bridgett is here. she has no clue that i'm here. she has no clue who's in the helmet. are you ready? -i'm ready! alright. xfinity rewards creates experiences big and small, and once-in-a-lifetime.

elizabeth: back with us now, common sense magazine executive ed editor chris bedford. chris, okay, a lot of attention by democrats going after justice clarence thomas. he's enjoyed perks from a billionaire friend, luxury i vacations, yachts, jets. the associate press justice sotomayor's staff demand canned public institutions like colleges and universities buy her memoir or buy her children's books before she agrees to a speaking appearance. we're talking schools likeson and michigan state, that she's made $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. what do you make of this controversy? >> it certainly is pretty interesting. if you reach out to a supreme court justice which is supposed to be somebody who guides your students on earth ethics and -- ethics and on walking that fine line x they say, well, we'd love to -- love to come by, but here's how many books you buy,

we know those law students really want to get a hold on that children's book. so we think you better purchase that. that's a wild thing to see. i'm going to be interesting, to your point, on the treatment here. justice clarence thomas has received incredibly unfair treatment in washington, d.c. since he first arrived from his confirmation hearings, all the way through his treatment at the zit sewn january -- smithsonian of african-american history where a side note all the way through now where he's attacked as someone who's absolutely corrupt. ya sotomayor, on the other hand, is probably going to be given a slap on the wrist, oh, my gosh, she lazy river floated into this corruption when it's pretty obviously undeath -- unethical. elizabeth: documents reveal repeated examples of court staff for the justice performing taskings for the justice's book -- workersers and other branches of the government, they

can't to do that. justice sotomayor is tree to do what other -- free to do what other officials can't do. also this, the ap reports yous sis sotomayor did not refuse herself from cases involving her publisher, penguin books. >> this is another thing to be talking about because even more is than maybe taking a trip with an old family friend, even a luxury trip which can be a form of bribery, these are the sorts of deals that have made her millions of dollars. that's extremely unprecedented, something that's absolutely worth taking a look at here. elizabeth: how do you think the media's going to handle it, chris? >> i think they're going to sweep it under the rug because she's a hero, she's on the right side of history, and people like clarence thomas despite being absolute treasures of america, people who show what can be accomplished in this country, well, they're attacked because with they're on the wrong --

wrong side of history according corporate media. elizabeth: got it. coming up, former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree, more on the u.s. attorney, david weiss, confirming a, quote, ongoing investigation into likely -- bribery allegations against joe and hunter biden. the doj revealing, unsealing charges against a man who accused biden of corruption, next on "the evening edit." s mug.ou ♪ ♪ ♪ shut it down ♪ ♪ blackpink in your area ♪ ♪ shut it down ♪ ♪ what-what-what-what? ♪ ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire

your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel- nothing beats it. new pronamel active shield actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. i think that this product is a gamechanger for my patients- it really works. - they get it. they know how it works. and more importantly, it works for them. - i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. - i don't have to worry about a mortgage payment every month. - it allowed me to live in my home and not have to make payments. - linda, dinah, joanne, very different people, but they do have a couple of things in common. they love their home and they know their stuff. they all talked about the counseling they got so they knew how reverse mortgage worked

and how it could be a real financial solution for their retirement. - [advertiser] if you are 62 or older and own your home, find out how you could access your home's equity to give you cash now and when you need it in the future. a reverse mortgage could put more money in your pocket by eliminating your monthly mortgage payments, paying off higher interest credit cards, and covering medical costs. - a person like me needed to get a reverse mortgage. it changed my life, it was the best thing i've ever done. - [tom selleck] really? - yes! without a doubt! - just like these folks, medical costs, and give you some extra cash aag can show you how a reverse mortgage loan uses your built-up home equity to give you tax-free cash. they also know they can pay it back whenever it works for 'em. from a reverse mortgage loan for a better retirement. - it's a good thing. from a reverse mortgage loan for a better retirement. - [advertiser] call right now to receive your free no obligation info kit. the kit will show you how you could get the cash you need using your home's equity as a reverse mortgage from aag. - call the number on your screen.

- i've been with aag for quite a while now. i think they're the real deal. - call the number on your screen. so look, why don't you get the facts, like these folks did, and see if a reverse mortgage could work for you? - [advertiser] call aag, the country's #1 reverse mortgage lender. - call the number on your screen.

elizabeth: well, look who's here, former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. tom, this story: hen -- when you heard david weiss sent a letter to senator lindsey graham confirming, yes, there's ab active, quote, ongoing investigation into bribery allegations against joe and hunter biden, what did you think? >> well, at first i was pleasantly surprised that this investigation is continuing. i think we had seen a lot of evidence, and when the charges against hunter biden were announced, a lot of us said, well, is that the end of it, is there more to come in it was good in that respect. but my concern is he's using that ongoing investigation now as an opportunity to decline to answer questions from the senate and from people in congress who are trying to exercise their oversight function. the letter that he sent to lindsey graham, in my opinion, really raised more questions than it answered, and i suspect we haven't heard the end of this. elizabeth: don't you feel like there should be full vetting and full disclosure with hearings? senator chuck grassley is saying perkily hundreds of doj --

potentially hundreds of doj and fbi officials knew about these bribery allegations. they knew about it but didn't act on it. we have assistant everyone to leslie wolf, fbi agents hearing about it but not acting on it either according to senator crassly and whistleblowers. >> right. and, look, i understand. i completely understand that the justice department likes to keep a tight lid on its investigations and not put secret materials out in the public sphere. but at the same time, the doj has to understand the immense public interest in this case and the importance of assuring the american public that politics is not playing a role in these decisions, that all the investigative evidence is being fully examed -- examined. and i think only if they go under oath and answer questions will we start getting answers to some of these issues. elizabeth e elizabeth the fbi e director's supposed to testify tomorrow. what do you make of the justice department unveiling -- gal luft claims he gave information on

biden family corruption and bribery from sources with ties to the chinese military. what'd you take -- make of this story? >> yeah, that's an interesting story, liz. look, if the charges in that indictment are true and if the justice department has evidence to back them up, those are serious crimes. but at the same time, we've learned that you can't always take everything that the administration tells us at face value, and the fact that he was allegedly tried to convey information about biden, about corrupt business deals and the like to congress and that this indictment is just a means of getting revenge, it's something you have to take seriously. i think we'll get a better sense of this if we start seeing the evidence the justice department says it has to support these very serious charges. elizabeth: there's a lot of smoke here, right? you don't want those allegations hanging out there. we don't even know if they're true or not. so we've got republican lawmakers saying he should be gwen immunity to testify. do you think he'll get it? >> i don't think he'll get

immunity to testify from these charges, but i do hope that these charges don't prevent him from sharing the information he has. in other words, it's entirely possible for him simultaneously to defend himself in this case and at the same time provide what information he has. about president biden or former vice president biden. elizabeth: i mean, these allegations are very serious against a sitting president, tom. i don't think we've ever seen this in modern -- certainly in modern u.s. history or ever against a president in the past century. i can't even -- nobody, we'd have to look into it, but haven't heard or seen this. tom dupree, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: you can send your e-mails to us, we really love leading them, enjoy your insights -- reading them. tomorrow we've got greg steube, jimmy failla. thanks for watching, here is brian and dagen. take it away, you guys. dagen: thank you so much, e-mac. ♪ ♪